W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“What I used to say to people, when I was much more engagé myself, is that you can't be apolitical. It will come and get you. It's not that you shouldn't be neutral. It's that you won't be able to stay neutral.”
“What I usually do is tell funny stories from the road, many of which are, of course, unprintable. But I don't actually have a joke. I don't tell jokes much. I tell little stories.”
“What I value in life is quality rather then quantity.”
“What I value is the naked contact of a mind.”
Source: The Pargiters
“What i value more than all things, good humor.”
Source: The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence
“What I value most about Pastor Wright is not his day-to-day political advice. He's much more of a sounding board for me to make sure that I am speaking as truthfully about what I believe as possible and that I'm not losing myself in some of the hype and hoopla and stress that's involved in national politics.”
“What I value most in my friends is loyalty.”
“What I value most in new music today is strangeness, oddity. Passion. And humor. I listen to a lot of hip-hop because it combines so many things like that.”
“What I value most next to eternity is time.”
“What I've always taken away from his words is the sense that we all have something that confines us, that seeks to define us, label us, belittling us in the process, shortchanging our potential. Can it be that that is our sanctuary, our refuge, our way to liberty?”
Source: Catharsis
“What I've been shown by my Angels confirms that we don't die alone, and are immediately greeted by Angels and Spirits. We are whisked away to Heaven, where eager Departed Loved Ones await to celebrate our arrival. I hope that information will someday lessen your grief after a loss.”
“What I’ve come to realize I that I don’t like action for action’s sake. Mindless explosions, super close ups of combat and gore, and unnecessary effects make me zone out incredibly fast.
What I do love is a fight that is well choreographed and in which I actually care about the outcome. And hopefully not riddled with cliches.
Even more so, I have had a long, deep-seated appreciation for watching chicks kick ass. Watching some lone-wolf-type hero beat the crap out of the bad guys is okay, but watching a BAMF femme do it is 10000% times better.”
“What I've dared, I've willed; and what I've willed, I'll do! They think me mad -- Starbuck does; but I'm demoniac, I am madness maddened! - Capt. Ahab.”
Source: Moby-Dick or, The Whale
“What I've discovered is that by keeping peace with those who hurt me, I had no peace. Rather, I was in turmoil. I suffered the aftermath of sexual violence. I am the one who has battled for my life.”
Source: Soul Cry: Releasing & Healing the Wounds of Trauma
“What I've learned about writing is that sometimes less is more, while often more is grander. And both are true.”
“What I’ve learned from practicing gratitude over the years is that giving thanks for what you want produces more of it, while thinking and complaining about what you don’t want produces more of that. Spiritual leaders and gurus have been saying it for centuries, but I never actually believed them until I started practicing gratitude on a consistent basis. Now, this has been proven to me time and again, and I know they’re 100% right about the fact that your thoughts really do create your reality. Life is really just a mirror for how you’re feeling on the inside.”
Source: Give Thanks: A Journal for Sharing Gratitude
“What I’ve learned from the hell I’ve been through is that I am my own remedy.”
Source: Dying on The Inside and Suffocating on The Outside
“What I’ve learned from the hell I’ve been through is that I am my own remedy. I am my only way out—although I had help along the way here, in order for me to get better, I had to want to help myself. It started with me.”
Source: Dying on The Inside and Suffocating on The Outside
“What I've learned is that women suffer from terrible shame and the shame comes from having been complicit in abuse because one wants to live.”
Source: Heartbreak: The Political Memoir of a Feminist Militant
“What I’ve learned is, what people want is to tell someone, anyone, their problems.”
Source: Too Much on the Inside
“What I've learned over the years is that people shouldn't be defined by a single mistake. Everyone messes up," she said. "You have to forgive yourself and move one.”
Source: Beauty Awakened
“What I've learned since being out in the dating field is: A lot of men are really boring. Or else they're not boring, they're super-fun and exciting, but they have four other secret girlfriends they never mentioned....”
Source: The Party Crasher
“What I’ve learned, Uncle, in a life you despise, is that everything we do has more than one consequence, and half those or more we never anticipate.”
Source: Oath of Fealty
“What I’ve learnt is: buy the damn shoes. Kiss the boy. You can lose a life in indecision, and regret is a waste of an emotion.”
Source: A Summer at the Castle
“What I've learnt - to my cost - on several occasions in my life, is that people will put up with all manner of bad behaviour so long as you're giving them what they want. They'll laugh and get into it and enjoy the anecdotes and the craziness and the mayhem as long as you're going your job well, but the minute you're not, you're fucked. They'll wipe their hands of you without a second glance.”
Source: My Booky Wook
“What I’ve never understood is why the boys are always shocked when they get their first glance of their newly made-up date, as if the girls weren’t already beautiful despite their penchant for androgynous clothing. Do
screenwriters think teenage boys lack all power of imagination?”
Source: What to Say Next
“What I’ve stumbled upon, over and over throughout the years, is that wellness doesn’t come from a bottle or a cleanse—it comes from being connected, from freely allowing and following fluent tides of passion, from making gut-based decisions, from indulging in openness, love and authenticity—always, in all ways.”
Source: The Little Book of Big Life Change: A Nine-Part Journey to Feeling Whole
“What I’ve taken for granted may well be the very privileges that will be taken from me unless I take a very different view of them.”
“What I very much admire about the Versace maison, and what I am still trying to learn to do myself as I am still young, is that from day one until today, Versace is the peak of sexy but never crosses that red line into the vulgar.”
“What I walk on is not the energy of youth, it is a better energy. I walk on the endless energy of inner peace that never runs out! When you become a channel through which God works there are no more limitations, because God does the work through you: you are the instrument - and what God can do is unlimited. When you are working for God you do not find yourself striving and straining. You find yourself calm, serene and unhurried.”
“What I wanna do with Methods is keep that around as sorta my freak out, creative free for all- anything goes project.”
“What I want all of you to know is that we are going to bring those who killed our fellow Americans to justice.”
“What I want and I wanted to be unforgettable.”
Source: For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf
“What I want any genre to do, what I want any work of art to do, is to illuminate the human condition.”
“What I want back is what I was Before the bed, before the knife, Before the brooch-pin and the salve Fixed me in this parenthesis; Horses fluent in the wind, A place, a time gone out of mind.”
Source: The Colossus
“What I want does exist if I dare to find it.”
“What I want for children in our country and around the world is safe, stable and loving homes.”
“What I want for Christmas is to be a Japanese pop star. [Laughs] Santa can't exactly put that under the tree, but I'm hoping that some magic will happen overseas.”
“What I want for the people I cook for is for them to enjoy their own perversions at the table, to feel free to exhibit a lack of constraint.”
Source: Small Fires: An Epic in the Kitchen
“What I want from each and every one of you is a hard-target search of every gas station, residence, warehouse, farmhouse, henhouse, outhouse and doghouse in that area.”
“What I want from my lovers is real, unadulterated love, and from my genuine workers I expect real work done.”
“What I want from you comrade, what the world wants from you, O dearest, are the neurons of steel, within which dwells a mind of the same material of which the thunderbolt is made.”
Source: Principia Humanitas
“What I want from you is simple. I want today only.
If it’s laughter, I want it. If it’s pain, I want it.
Whatever today holds, as long as the day holds you, I want it.
I want today only.”
Source: Today Only
“What I want from you, those are just things like this. Not hot things, but warm things.”
“What I want has nothing to do with who
wins." -Ouyang”
Source: She Who Became the Sun
“What I want, however, is for you to cast off the shackles of the past and step into the future with me as an emancipated woman.”
Source: The Perks of Higher Ed
“What I want???
I just want silence I can afford it, it doesn't need to pay for it or does it?”
“What I want in my life is compassion
a flow between myself and others
based on mutual giving from the heart.”
“What I want is a beautiful and sophisticated piece of ass that happens to be 'bi.”
Source: Cities of Love, Salt & Alchemy
“What I want is a good, strong monarchy with a tasteful and decent king who has some knowledge of theology and geometry and to cultivate a Rich Inner Life.”